Hi! So this is just a random thing I wanna tell you, Iâm not Veganâ but! Listen up, my family has completely given up chicken (due to extreme health risks) and we donât eat other types of meat, we live in a pretty standard area and eat eggs and milk everyday because theyâre healthy, would you consider this progress?
Iâm not trying to be rude at all here, but youâve asked me this question knowing Iâm a vegan blogger, so I can only assume you want an honest answer. Any reduction in animal products is obviously a good thing, but âprogressâ would suggest youâre moving towards veganism, and based on what youâve told me here this doesnât sound like the case. Itâs a little bit like someone who has stopped abusing their dogs and now only abuses their cats asking if theyâre making progress- itâs obviously better to stop abusing some animals, but you donât exactly feel like giving them a round of applause. I know you probably feel like those two things arenât comparable but for someone like me who finds the consumption of animal products abhorrent, it really isnât all that different.
If youâre primarily consuming milk and eggs for health reasons, then you may want to look into that a little more closely. There have been multiple studies linking dairy to everything from cancer and heart disease to osteoporosis. Eggs also have their issues, but even if both of these were associated with no negative effects at all (which very much isnât the case) then consuming them would still be completely unnecessary. There is nothing in milk and eggs which you canât get elsewhere, and considering the cruelty involved, if you could give these up without losing any vitamins or nutrients, then why wouldnât you? Iâve written about the cruelty of milk here and eggs here, please check them out. If youâre looking for a more graphic example, look into videos of chick culling and calf slaughter, both standard industry practices.Â
As vegans we object to meat, fish, dairy and eggs on ethical grounds, not because we think theyâre unhealthy, that is just incidental. Please look into why you should go vegan, and you can see how easy it can be in my guide here. As I said, any reduction is a good thing, but all animal products are the result of exploitation, and when you choose to purchase them, you create demand for that cruelty and death. Dairy and eggs are so easy to avoid, there is just no good reason to continue consuming them when so many healthy, plant based alternatives exist.Â
